Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 385

Her eyes, damp with emotion, flashed with a furious light. "You never believe me, always choosing to side with Elaine. Don't you see she's been plotting against our kids from the start? I didn't tell you our other son was still alive because you don't deserve to know! That's why when the kidnapping happened, I didn't mention Sammy. It gave Elaine the perfect cover to clear her name and stay entwined with you in your sordid love affair." Whitney's voice was tinged with bitterness, and she clutched her chest as her breathing became rapid.

Ludwik, on hearing her rapid-fire accusations, froze. His emotions were a whirlwind of joy and pain, the latter as if Whitney's grip was physically squeezing his heart, seeding doubts.

He shook his head, his voice hoarse and low. "Impossible... The police found a body in the sea six months later. I pulled it from the water, prepared it for the funeral, and named him Jacky. Jacky and Danny, my awaited twins... You cruelly took one from me, and I've resented you for three years, Whitney. Whitney..." His voice trembled slightly, cold yet hopeful as he looked at her, gripping her shoulders. "If you're lying to me, playing me, I swear..."

"I have no reason to lie. Sammy is alive!" Whitney saw the deep sorrow in his eyes. For a moment, he seemed so vulnerable. Her heart felt briefly seized, softened for a second. She unlocked her phone, pulling up a photo album, and drawing Danny closer, she explained, "Look for yourself. Photos of Sammy and me, from his childhood to now, abroad. He and Danny could be twins. It wasn't just you who got fooled at first."

Remembering the past, Whitney smiled sadly. She pointed at a picture of Sammy's clothing. "Sammy's the gentle soul, loves his comfortable tracksuits. Danny, on the other hand, you've always dressed him sharply, in little suits. That's their biggest difference. But when they pretended to be each other, no one could tell them apart. They switched places at the charity gala, and we were none the wiser."

Heaven... Could it be true?

Ludwik scrutinized Danny's current attire, the little suit, and recalled the recent shifts in his behavior-lively one moment, reserved the next. It had seemed odd, and he had his suspicions. But the boys were identical, both innocently charming, making it difficult to distinguish one from the other.

"So you figured it out, and you all conspired to fool me?" Ludwik thought back to his recent visits to the apartment. The last time, it must have been Sammy who greeted him.

video call and help diagnose your mother's illness. I was the one who

as she dashed into the room, her gaze sharp on the window that opened both ways. "Ludwik,

followed, frowning, into the

suspect Elaine escaped with Sammy through this window. She must have threatened your mother with Sammy's life, forcing Natalie to leave through the door. Because jumping would have meant

catch up. Ludwik looked down from the second-story window, considering the danger of such a fall for a child. His heart clenched at the thought. His gaze then fell on the bloodstains on the hospital bed... He suddenly remembered his conversation with his mother that morning. She had gestured "two," wanting to see her grandsons. He had thoughtlessly replied she only had one, which confused

had regained her hearing earlier than he thought. If Whitney was right about the boys switching places, then Sammy must have also visited his grandmother, explaining her happiness that morning. He had been the fool, kept in the dark while even his mother knew of his

anew, her theory gaining credibility. His mother, to protect Sammy,

Whitney sighed. "Ludwik, do you still doubt Elaine is behind the kidnapping of

boy, smarter and slicker than me, and he takes good care of people. These three years, living with Mommy and him, I've been really happy. He's Mommy's little sunshine. We can't lose him; he's my brother..." Danny, tears streaming down his face, clutched Ludwik's hand, his usual stoic demeanor breaking

him two bouncing baby boys. In that moment, the man felt his

Felix again for the surveillance footage from TriMed Hospital, her gaze sharp and cold. "You didn't give me a chance earlier. This is the surveillance from Elaine's ward. She was wearing a red dress, wandering around the ward under surveillance in the morning. She hadn't come out since one in the afternoon. Don't you think she's a suspect? No, the surveillance only caught her legs appearing at the door of the ward.

Ludwik's gaze turned icy.

to change the medication. Ludwik, there's a twenty-minute gap in the surveillance at three o'clock. If we could see it, we would definitely spot a suspicious nurse walking in. She must have planned to come in and poison Natalie, but didn't expect Sammy to walk in on her. After being exposed, she had no choice but to

silent, emanating a

time. Hurry up and intercept Elaine at TriMed Hospital! Let's quickly check all the hospital's exit surveillance to find